You Can Now Play a Fun Photo Guessing Game With IBM Watson

Watson is IBM's super new AI, which does all kinds of awesome stuff but essentially it's a cognitive system that processes information about the world in a way that's meant to be way more like a human than a computer. It's latest super magic trick? Being able to guess exactly what's in your images.

Reports suggested Watson would be getting image recognition smarts earlier this year. But now IBM has lifted the lid on a website called Visual Recognition Demo, which allows you to feed Watson either an image URL or upload one of your own for the AI tool to then tell you what it *thinks* it can see.

We ran a series of tests and lo-and-behold Watson was creepily accurate. It could figure out what was going on in the overall photo, as well as distinguish less prominent features that were in the background or foreground.

Sure you can just play a fun guessing game with Watson, but you're also able to bulk upload photos and classify them so it can learn more from you about what is and isn't in photos. With the idea that further learning means it'll become even more accurate over time.